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Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEi ORMOND E. PURDY, OF AMSTERDAM, NENV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ALEXAN- DER OARMICHAEL AND NINA H. TOWVNSEND, (EXECUTRIX OF SAMUEL D. TOIVNSEND, DECEASED,) OF W'ESTERLY, RI-IODE ISLAND.

CHECK OR OTHER LIKE BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,296, dated December 23, 1890. Application filed October 26, 1886. Serial No- 217,237. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORMOND E. P'URDY, of Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and v State of New York, have invented new and 5 useful Improvements in Check or other Like Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is applicable to check-books, draft and bill-of-exchange books, also other or all books in which it is important to preserve an exact copy; but it will sufrlce here to illustrate it in connection with a check-book.

The invention consists in a book of the description above named constructed substanr tially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, whereby an exact fac-simile 'of the filled-up and signed checks or drafts,

&c., is retained in the book.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying zo drawings, forming a part'of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face view of a checkbook embodying my invention and showing one of the copying-leaves as partly turned up to expose the sheet beneath, from which an impression has been taken. Fig. 2 is a section of the book upon the line a: x in Fig. 1. In both of these figuresthe backs of the book 0 are omitted.

The sheets of printed checks or blanks are indicated by the letter b. Directly over each of these sheets I) is asheet c, of tissue or other suitable copying paper ormaterial, bound in 3 5 with the book, as by stitching e or otherwise,

and which serve the purpose of taking a presscopy of the checks or blanks after they are filled out and signed. Directly again following or at the back of each printed check or blank sheet b is a sheet 01, of plain white unruled paper or other suitable material, also bound in with the book, and which serves to protect the tissue or copying sheet from bein g torn or defaced after the checks or blanks 5 have been torn out.

The following will serve to explain the advantages and use of this construction. In

using the ordinary style of check-book, if a party has incorrectly made out a oheckas, for instance, in which the figures and writ- 5o ing do not agree-word is usually sent from the bank, if the error is discovered,to thateffect. Reference to the stub in the check-book throws but little light upon the error. In the book, as shown in the drawings, the printing, rulings, and written matter on the checksheets I) are made with copying-ink, and after the check is Written out and signed with such ink a press copy is taken of the same on the sheet 0 over it, after which the check is cut out from the book in the line of perforations a dividing it from an adjacent check. Now, under the circumstances before narrated, supposing the bank to notify the party by telephone or messenger that a certain check, par- 6 5 ticularizing its number, is informal by the writings and figures on it disagreeing, the party thus notified speedily detects the error by referring to the press copy in his checkbook. Again, inasmuch as the press copy is an exact fac-simile of the check, it will be a perfect safeguard againstany question which may arise as to a check being tampered withas, for instance, by raising the figures after the check has been issued by the maker of it.

My invention dispenses with the extra 1abor of reattaching the returned checks and provides for a perfect facsimile of the check being retained for future reference.

It is not absolutely necessary that the So printed matter of the checks should be in copying-ink, as it will suffice that the filling out of the blanks and signature should alone be preserved and be written with copying-in k, in orderthat a facsimile of the essential parts 8 5 of the check may be retained in the book.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a blank-book comprising the printed blanks,

a sheet 0, of tissue or letterpress paper, extending over the printed face of each blank to receive a letter-press copy therefrom when tilled in, and a protecting-sheet (l between the checks and the letterpress sheets, where the rear [aeeof theprintetl blank and the sueby a complete letter-press copy of the entire 10 ceeding tissue or letter-press sheet. check when filled may be made, substantially 2. As an improved article of manufacture, as set; forth. a cheek-book consisting in the blank cheeks ORMOND lC. PU'RDY.

Witnesses:

ItI-ION B. STAN'JTON, WM. MI'L HELL.

printed in copying-ink, a letter-press sheet over the printed face of each check, and the protectingsheets between the rear faces of 

